Nordson Corp. has opened a 21,500-square-foot technical center in Shanghai that will help the maker of automated spraying and dispensing equipment serve what it called “the company's large and growing customer base throughout China and the greater Asian region.” Nordson did not disclose the cost of the technical center, which initially will focus on its hot melt adhesive dispensing products and systems for customers in the paper-based packaging, nonwovens, electronics, consumer goods and general product assembly end markets. H.J. Sha, vice president of Nordson Asia Pacific, said in a news release, “Nordson has operated in China since 1990, and the new technical center is an ideal complement to our longtime sales, service, product development and manufacturing facilities in Beijing, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Suzhou.”